- Zelensky returns highest Polish honour after award stripped
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland’s highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award. The Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej Duda. But Kyiv caused outrage last month after renaming a Ukrainian army unit after a group of controversial World War Two fighters called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Three senior Ukrainian officials have also said they are returning awards bestowed by Poland, to show solidarity with their president. Many in Ukraine regard the UPA, which existed in the 1940s and 1950s, as heroes who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Soviet Red Army, Nazi Germany and Polish authorities. The group’s red and black flag is often used by Ukrainian troops on the front line today.” (06/20/26)
- Russia: Regime frees 24 Filipinos after Marcos talks with Putin
Source: SFGate
“Russia has freed 24 Filipinos who were detained for months without charges in a Siberian city, after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. raised concern for them in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Philippine officials said Saturday. The 24 arrived in Manila aboard two flights early Sunday, and the first batch was welcomed by Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro, who accompanied Marcos in his talks with Putin on Wednesday in the Russian city of Kazan, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said. Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Cacdac welcomed the final batch of freed workers before dawn. His agency provided unspecified aid to the workers, who were detained in a Russian region known for its extreme winter temperatures..” (06/20/26)
- MO: Judge finds state laws restricting abortion violate voter-approved constitutional amendment
Source: Seattle Times
“A Missouri judge this week struck down a series of restrictions on abortion, finding they violated a constitutional amendment that voters approved in 2024. Many of the provisions were already on hold because of an earlier, preliminary court ruling. But it is resulting in one major change: The state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates say the new ruling means they’re going to start prescribing abortion pills to patients there for the first time since 2018. The ruling is a clear legal victory for abortion rights advocates, but it’s not the final word. An appeal and another ballot measure are on tap.” (06/19/26)
- DC: American Olympic canoeist arrested for vandalizing [sic] Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Source: New York Post
“A former US Olympian was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC. David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, was cycling past the monument on Friday when he said he stopped and noticed a piece of the pool’s liner floating in the water. President Trump announced that ‘many additional people’ have also been arrested in connection to the ‘disgraceful Vandalism [sic].’ … Trump claimed that the vandals poured destructive chemicals into the pool and that it would have to be drained so that repairs could be made. … Hearn, 67, claimed to the Washington Post he reached out and touched the detached piece and was quickly taken into custody by Park Police at the beleaguered monument.” [editor’s note: This story seems to imply that Hearn had no ill intent; so what is the real story? – SAT] (06/20/26)
- ICC prosecutor temporarily suspended from British bar
Source: ABC News
“The British bar association temporarily suspended the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings. British barrister Karim Khan was formally removed from his duties at the ICC last week after the court’s oversight body found he had engaged in ‘serious misconduct’ over accusations he had an inappropriate relationship with a female staff member. The 56-year old has strongly denied the allegations against him. The move by the Bar Standards Board, which regulates lawyers practicing in England and Wales, is the latest challenge Khan is facing. Last week the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties — the executive committee of the ICC’s oversight body — concluded he had engaged in ‘serious misconduct’ and ‘serious breach of duty’ and recommended his removal from office.” (06/19/26)
- India: Cockroach Party supporters bang plates to call for education minister’s resignation
Source: SFGate
“Supporters of India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party banged steel plates with spoons in a protest Saturday to demand the resignation of the education minister over allegations of examination irregularities and repeated paper leaks. The protest near Parliament in New Delhi by hundreds of students and young supporters of the nascent movement added to the pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government while also seeking wider support among Indians. Authorities deployed heavy security and police used cameras and drones to monitor the protest. Some carried placards and others banged plates, their noise cutting through the crowd protesting and demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The banging of plates appeared to satirize Modi’s call for Indians to step onto balconies and rooftops and bang utensils in solidarity with front-line health workers during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.” (06/20/26)
- US regime to end funding for South Africa’s HIV programs over policy issues
Source: United Press International
“The Trump administration plans to stop funding HIV programs in South Africa under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief over policy differences. The U.S. State Department is winding down the funds South Africa receives from PEPFAR to care for the roughly 8 million people there who are living with HIV, Semafor, Politico and The BBC reported. PEPFAR was launched in 2003 by former President George W. Bush and, over the last two decades, has partnered with health authorities in more than 50 nations to save 25 million lives and prevent millions of new HIV infections, State Department figures show. President Donald Trump in a February 2025 executive order accused South Africa of permitting discrimination against white Afrikaners and has slowly pulled back U.S. funding for its HIV programs over the last year.” (06/19/26)
- France: Regime bans alcohol consumption at music festival events under red heatwave alert
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“France has banned alcohol at some events at massive national music festival as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels. The annual Fête de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets but with the most serious heatwave warnings being issued for 35 of France’s departments, the government has banned alcohol consumption in public places under the red alerts. ‘For all events organised by the state and its agencies, instructions have been given not to offer alcohol,’ the office of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said. On Sunday, temperatures of 39C-40C are expected from the southwest through the Paris region into Burgundy, with some areas possibly reaching 41C.” (06/20/26)
- Spain: Court bans PM’s wife from leaving country amid corruption probe
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The wife of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been barred from travelling abroad as she prepares to face trial on corruption charges. Investigating judge Juan Carlos Peinado issued the ruling on Saturday, ordering Sanchez’s wife, Begona Gomez, to hand in her passport and appear in front of court twice per month until a verdict is issued. She is charged with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds. Gomez has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the case, which stems from a complaint filed by an anticorruption group with far-right ties. It focuses on the creation and management of a chair at Madrid’s Complutense University that was co-directed by Gomez, as well as the alleged use of public resources and personal connections to advance private interests.” (06/20/26)
- Bolivia: Paz declares a state of emergency as road blockades choke supplies
Source: SFGate
“President Rodrigo Paz on Saturday declared a state of emergency that gives the military broad power to remove road blockades that have put a stranglehold on fuel and food supplies in Bolivia’s seat of government and other major cities. A wave of protests over the last five weeks has called for Paz to step down over austerity measures imposed by the government, including the cancellation of fuel subsidies, and other issues. The demonstrations have unleashed violent confrontations between dynamite-wielding demonstrators and riot police, leading to at least 365 arrests and 37 injuries, according to authorities. At least 17 people have died, most of them linked to a lack of medical care caused by transportation disruptions, according to Bolivia’s ombudsman’s office and human rights organizations..” (06/20/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/bolivia-s-president-declares-a-state-of-22313368.php
- MO: Homeowner shoots, kills intruder
Source: KSHB 41 News
“Police in Blue Springs say a homeowner shot and killed an intruder early Friday morning near Lake Lotawana. … According to a social media post, officers received a 911 call from the homeowner reporting a burglary in progress and that a person had ‘unlawfully entered the residence.’ Before officers arrived at the scene, police say the homeowner shot and killed the person.” (06/20/26)
https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/blue-springs-police-homeowner-shoots-kills-intruder-friday-morning
- The Mind and Brilliance of Alexis de Tocqueville, Part One
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis“Most of you have heard of Alexis de Tocqueville, the Frenchman who visited America in the 1830s and wrote a two-volume classic, Democracy in America, about his findings. De Tocqueville was an incredibly brilliant man, and I’d like to share with readers a little of his genius. Like our Founding Fathers, he had a solid grasp of history, human nature, and great, eternal spiritual truths. Here are a few of his thoughts: 1. ‘The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.’ … I find it interesting that he said that Congress would bribe the people with their own money. The man was honest. … 2. ‘I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.'” (06/21/26)
- Queers are Everywhere You Bomb
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid“It is a sad and disturbing fact that the white supremacist cis hetero chauvinists behind the mirage factory that is Atlantic neoliberalism have adopted the notion of ‘LGBTQ rights’ as one of their many excuses for flattening the planet and turning it into a colossal beige fulfillment center at the service of the global 1%. But this must be seen for what it truly is; fickle, empty and totally deceptive propaganda.” (06/20/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/06/queers-are-everywhere-you-bomb.html
- Power of judges expanding, not being curbed
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton“This week, a federal judge in Montana cancelled oil and gas leases on 1.5 MILLION acres of land in the State of Wyoming (a different district). And more acres in Montana and the Dakotas. … The State of Wyoming alone will lose $330 million in royalties and fees – not counting the taxes paid by the people who work getting and transporting the natural gas, and the taxes as the money circulates through the local economies. Now, as lovers of liberty, we are of mixed feelings about the bureaucrats and politicos down in Cheyenne (or Helena, or Bismarck and Pierre) getting less money. But it is the people that won’t get paid because that oil and gas will stay in the ground, instead of fueling the economy, that really take it in the shorts. … So why did this judge do this? Including going outside his district? Bluntly, because the guy is in bed with the environists.” (06/20/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/06/20/power-of-judges-expanding-not-being-curbed/
- Fatalities From Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader“The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Gaza, an exposed, defenseless population of 2.3 million people in an enclave the geographic size of Pennsylvania. … Why? One reason is that the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health certifies deaths in Gaza based on reports from hospitals and morgues that were mostly blown up well over a year ago. (They report presently around 73,000 fatalities.) But Hamas has admitted that there are tens of thousands of bodies under the rubble, thousands more blown into bits or incinerated and unidentifiable.” (06/20/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-genocide-death-toll-undercount
- Fossils
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“Back when I was a college student, a very long time ago, coat and tie were required wear in the dining hall. I kept a rolled up tie in my pocket, to be worn for meals and only for meals, have rarely worn one since. Part of the reason may have been that my sport at the time was judo, where choke holds are legal. Neckties are an obsolete technology. Their purpose was to seal the shirt at the neck to help keep the wearer warm in unheated rooms. They have been made obsolete twice, first by central heating and a second time by elastic. They are still worn, although less often than when I was young. Neckties are a fossil. There are others.” (06/19/26)
- Patriotism: The one growing gap between Dems & Repubs that shouldn’t ever exist
Source: New York Post
by Rich Lowry“Democrats take great offense at being accused of being unpatriotic, but the data don’t lie. A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America. Overall, 56% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the country, but only 29% of Democrats, compared to 90% of Republicans. That’s a yawning gap, and about a matter that really shouldn’t be controversial. We aren’t talking about abortion, or Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, but an elemental thing (pride in country) that in most times and places has been taken for granted.” [editor’s note: If you (irrationally, IMO) want people to be “proud” of their “country,” keep it a country that inspires pride. Otherwise, shut yer whining – TLK] (06/19/26)
- The Strange Case of the United Arab Emirates
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider“[W]hile the rest of the Gulf countries went one way, toward restraint and staying out of a war they were trying to end, the United Arab Emirates went another. The UAE urged the other Gulf countries to take a more aggressive posture in their defense and to join the United States. They alone said they would be willing to join a U.S.-led international effort to ‘secure navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.’ And on the very day the Gulf Cooperation Council opened its recent summit, the Emirati government announced it was leaving the Saudi-led OPEC group of oil-producing nations. But then the more sensational revelations came. In an extraordinary first, Israel sent an Iron Dome battery, interceptors, and dozens of IDF operators to the UAE, to help intercept Iranian missiles fired at the UAE.” (06/20/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-strange-case-of-the-united-arab-emirates/
- Why Cities Go Socialist
Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson“In the course of my roughly three-quarters-of-a-century-long life, I’ve lived in just three cities: Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. By year’s end, there’s a decent chance that all three of those cities will have a socialist mayor. Just to be clear, despite the fact that I’ve been an avowed democratic socialist in all three cities (for all of my adult life, in fact), I’m claiming no credit for their new socialist proclivities. Yesterday, the candidate running second in Tuesday’s D.C. Democratic mayoral primary conceded the race to the front-runner, city council and DSA member Janeese Lewis George. With three-quarters of the ballots counted, Lewis George has a 53 percent to 37 percent lead over the second-place finisher.” (06/19/26)
- Plants, Aliens, and Aristotle
Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark K Spencer“A traditional taxonomy can yield new insights into the natures of living things.” (06/19/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/plants-aliens-and-aristotle/
- Fiddlers, Drunkards, Marijuana, and the Second Amendment
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by David Kopel“Arguing to uphold the ban, the government had to argue that marijuana users were more dangerous than the general population. Yet as the Court pointed out, marijuana is legal in most States. And Congress has constricted Department of Justice funding for enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Moreover, the Executive branch has moved some marijuana from Schedule I (outlawed) to Schedule III (regulated). In short, Hemani rests on foundations that both originalists and a non-originalists can find compelling.” (06/19/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/06/19/fiddlers-drunkards-marijuana-and-the-second-amendment/
- Florida Fake Freedom: Unmasking The Political Spin
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“Lawmakers praise our liberty while they pass crony tax cuts and restrict your constitutional rights.” (06/19/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/florida-fake-freedom-unmasking-the
- Did Trump Snooker Iran?
Source: American Greatness
by Ken Timmerman“To evaluate the Iran Memorandum of Understanding on its merits, beyond the hype, let’s start by separating what we know from what we don’t. Iran’s military has been destroyed. It has no air force, no navy, and no air defenses. We have obliterated Iran’s uranium enrichment plants, its uranium mills, and its uranium hexafluoride conversion facility, as well as the secret bomb-making workshops in Parchin that Iran would never allow the IAEA to inspect. We have destroyed most of Iran’s ability to manufacture drones and ballistic missiles. We have shattered the Iranian economy. We have pitted the regime against itself, as seen in recent demonstrations organized by hard-liners against the MoU. We have also demonstrated that America has a new ‘special relationship’ – with Israel, not Britain.” [editor’s note: I really need to find this guy’s LSD dealer – TLK] (06/20/26)
- Supreme Court Ends Federal War on Gun-Owning Potheads
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard“More than fifty-two million Americans used marijuana during 2021, according to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, and another ten million people used other illicit substances. Actual usage is higher because some people are paranoid about confessing crimes to federally funded survey takers. Roughly 40% of American households possess firearms. Thus, roughly twenty-five million gun owners were probably felons because of their possession or use of marijuana or other illicit indulgences. Though most gun owners who violate marijuana laws pose no threat, federal agencies could have potentially rounded them up as if they were hostile Indians being confined to a reservation. … Despite the victory at the Supreme Court, gun owners should remember that most of Congress, the Justice Department, and the Trump White House remain dire threats to their rights and liberties. Any politicians who brazenly seeks to destroy the Second Amendment cannot be trusted to respect any other constitutional right.” (06/19/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/06/19/supreme-court-ends-federal-war-on-gun-owning-potheads/
- How Big Fraud is Aided and Abetted by Big Tech and What We Can Do About It
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden“Recently I saw an ad on Youtube which advertised a preventative medicine for Alzheimer’s and dementia. The ad claimed that there is a recipe repeated many times in the Bible for this miraculous preventative and that’s why there is so little incidence of these maladies in Israel. I’m generally skeptical of such claims but if such a claim is false, it simply wouldn’t be permitted to be published, right? Wrong! I decided to check out the claim with my buddy CoPilot (Microsoft’s AI) and it led to an interesting discussion of this and many other false, misleading and fraudulent advertising on big tech platforms. I have flagged such false and misleading ads on Facebook many times and yet the ads keep appearing? Why? Here is our very revealing discussion.” (06/19/26)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-big-fraud-is-aided-and-abetted-by.html
- As Bad as Obama: Trump’s 2025 Gun Control Enforcement Numbers
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Alan Mosley“Federal gun control enforcement actions by the ATF are on the rise again. While the numbers are still below record highs set by President Trump during his first term, and in one key metric, lower than they’ve been in a decade, the overall picture is still terrible. And in some cases, they’re heading in the wrong direction once again. Every year the ATF releases a fact sheet detailing the number of employees engaging in gun control measures as well as the number of cases pursued and defendants named in said cases. The following report is based entirely on the recently-released data provided for 2025.” (06/19/26)
- The Fed’s higher road to lower prices
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“From the gas pump to the produce aisle, Americans are seeking respite from high prices. They now have a new champion. On Wednesday, Kevin Warsh made his debut as head of the Federal Reserve, easily the world’s most influential economic institution. The central bank chief told reporters the many ways he would change the Fed to rein in inflation. Yet, after being in office for only about three weeks, he also noted his own surprise at one immediate change. ‘I was just incredibly impressed” about how much the Fed’s colleagues have been ‘very open about changes,’ he said. The comment is noteworthy because Mr. Warsh believes that ‘genuine’ deliberation among experts – relying on patient inquiry, respectful listening, and civil attentiveness to alternative views and data – is key to controlling the nation’s money supply and interest rates.” (06/18/26)
- The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter“Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies viewed as such a threat? To many Americans of this period, peacetime standing armies posed a threat not only because they could be used by the state to overthrow liberty, but because they tended to reshape society and government itself. A permanent military establishment could develop interests distinct from those of the people, become an instrument for enforcing unpopular or unconstitutional policies, and concentrate power in the hands of central authorities.” (06/19/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies
- The Hidden Driver of Social Security’s Fiscal Crisis
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia“Social Security’s financing problems stem not only from an aging population but also from benefit formulas that grow more generous with each generation.” (06/19/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-hidden-driver-of-social-securitys-fiscal-crisis/
- America’s Suez Moment
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan“Surrenders are rarely as categorical as this one. We went to war with no debate, no Congressional approval, and no notice. A foreign leader, Bibi Netanyahu, chose the timing by assassinating the entire leadership of the Iranian regime, thereby making the war an existential one for the IRGC, and all but forcing the US to join in. The US subsequently displayed its full and unequaled military might, raining missiles and bombs all over the country, demanding ‘unconditional surrender.’ And the surrender, a few short months later, is ours. You can try to put some lipstick on this porcine disaster — the dead-enders are still trying — but the reality is something even the hasbarists can’t quite spin. … The silver lining, however, is that the American public never wanted this bullshit war, and saw right through it.” (06/19/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/americas-suez-moment-b4d
- Socialist Electoral Movement on the Move in New York City
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan“The farther south you go on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn the more it becomes the sort of lively hectic commercial strip/ party that exists in few places outside of New York. The new sneaker stores and roti restaurants and weird places to buy garish $200 suits and fishnet body suits sit in chipped brick buildings with slapped-up painted wooden signs and you can feel the continuity of history pulsing through, like you could close your eyes and slide right back to the cigar stores and dressmakers that filled those spots a century ago. Set amid this strip is the refurbished King’s Theater — impossibly grand inside, soaring carved wooden columns with twisting, golden wooden flowers and fleur-de-lis and rich crimson curtains dripping in gold fringe. Spectacular. Its unlikely grandeur is somehow enhanced by the fact that it’s shoved down there next to the discount liquor store and the Taco Bell Cantina.” (06/19/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/dsa-nyc-zohran-mamdani-bernie-sanders-socialist-slate
- Congress Should Nix Section 702 Spying for Good
Source: Indpendent Institute
by Ivan Eland“The ‘reformed’ Section 702 on which Congress was considering was worse than the already blatantly unconstitutional current version of Section 702, which allows spying without the required Fourth Amendment warrant from an independent judge (no exemption to this requirement for ‘national security’ appears in that constitutional amendment). According to the Brennan Center, the ‘reformed’ Section 702 not only has no warrant requirement nor restrictions on government back door searches of vast portions of its database, but also makes it easier to use such unconstitutional Section 702-gathered information in court. Fortunately, it appears the lawmakers won’t be forced to choose between two bad options. The House recently rejected a last-minute effort to extend Section 702 until July 2.” (06/19/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/19/congress-nix-section-702-spying/
- Hyper-militarized “war on narco-terror” is not stopping drug flows
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Lee Schlenker“The strategy is already leading groups to adapt to new illicit industries, divert trafficking routes, and expand operations to new subregions.” (06/19/26)
- Auberon Herbert and Individual Rights
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman“Self-possession as an existential (if not a moral) matter is self-evident. Only an individual can directly will his actions. No one has access to another’s will, the capacity to act. When we say that an aggressor forces a victim to do something, we don’t mean that the aggressor exercises the victim’s will. We mean the aggressor threatens harm or death if the victim doesn’t act as required. We might still ask why we must speak at all in terms of anyone owning anyone. The answer is at least implicit in Herbert’s essay. To live is to act (purposefully), to pursue objectives aimed at self-preservation, to value, that is, to prefer life to death. Life depends on such things.” (06/19/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-auberon-herbert-and-individual
- Midterms shape up to favor Republicans on the issues
Source: Washington Times
by Tim Murtaugh“The two candidates for U.S. Senate in Georgia could hardly be more different, both in their presentations and their policies. Voters will choose between two very different views of the world in a race that is emerging as emblematic of the larger midterm election clash of the political parties. Republican Mike Collins, who was elected in 2022 to represent Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, was endorsed by President Trump and won a primary runoff this week over former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley. Mr. Collins, a successful businessman who founded a trucking company, speaks with an easy Georgia drawl you can imagine coming from a CB radio on a long-haul 18-wheeler. The incumbent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, is a Hollywood-connected former documentary filmmaker who is scripted and focus-grouped — the sort of glossy politician the online left swoons for.” (06/18/26)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/18/midterms-shape-favor-republicans-issues/
- Trump, the Democrats, and the Courage To End a Failed War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Trita Parsi“Given the circumstances, President Trump’s decision to strike a deal with Tehran and bring this costly, unnecessary war to an end is the right one. It deserves support, not partisan second-guessing. As Rob Malley – a key member of Barack Obama’s team that negotiated the nuclear deal and later Joe Biden’s lead negotiator with Iran – noted on X, comparing Trump’s memorandum of understanding to Obama’s JCPOA misses the point. What matters is not how the agreement stacks up against past diplomatic achievements, but how it compares to the alternatives before us. And on that score, Malley argued, the MOU is ‘far preferable to any of the alternatives on offer. Period.’ I would go further. To examine the Memorandum of Understanding and ask ‘Was the war worth it?’ is nonsensical. Of course it wasn’t.” (06/19/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 345
Source: Unattended Baggage
“Peace. War. Strait Open. Strait Closed.” (06/20/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-345-peace-war-strait-open
- The Good Fight, 06/20/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“A Debate with Curtis Yarvin.” (06/20/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/a-debate-with-curtis-yarvin
- The Fifth Column, episode 562
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid.” (06/19/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-iran-deal-is-bad-and-everyone
- The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 06/19/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Tiffany Jenkins On Privacy And Liberalism.” (06/19/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/tiffany-jenkins-on-privacy-and-liberalism
- Serious Trouble, 06/19/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“America’s Next Top Tort.” (06/19/26)
- Checks & Balances, 06/19/26
Source: Checks & Balances
“David French: The Executive Branch Is Becoming an 800-Pound Gorilla.” (06/19/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/david-french-the-executive-branch
- Reasonably Optimistic, 06/19/26
Source: Washington Post
“Political parties keep asking voters to overlook scandals, bad judgment and unstable behavior because the other side is worse. Senate candidates Graham Platner and Ken Paxton are only the latest examples. Host Megan McArdle argues that character still matters in politics — and that voters are not helpless victims of polarization.” (06/19/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/voters-can-push-back-against-unsavory-politicians/
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/19/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“The Strait Is Closed Again — Can You Believe It?” (06/19/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/the-strait-is-closed-again-can-you-believe-it
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2771
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Democracy Is Low-Intensity Civil War, with Darryl Cooper.” (06/19/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2771-democracy-is-low-intensity-civil-war-with-darryl-cooper/
- Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 06/19/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘Trump/Sanders Plan to Nationalize AI.'” (06/19/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-06-20_zfw006172026.mp3